* Added new 'watched' flag for recordings which can be set manually or automatically and optionally increase auto expiration priority for watched shows. Includes a new 'watched' icon in the frontend and in MythWeb.

* Added new 'watched' flag for recordings which can be set manually or automatically and optionally increase auto expiration priority for watched shows. Includes a new 'watched' icon in the frontend and in MythWeb.

* Improved Jump to Program feature while watching a recording. This action will now bring up the Watch Recordings screen for selection of the program.

* Improved Jump to Program feature while watching a recording. This action will now bring up the Watch Recordings screen for selection of the program.

These are the changes in the current development version of MythTV from the 0.20 release. Currently these features are slated for the 0.21 release. Some of these changes, most notably the fixes, have been backported to the 0.20.2 release.

As always, these features are available in the Subversion system but be prepared if you plan to run this version and subscribe to the -dev and -commit mailing lists to keep up to date on development.

Updated through revision 14225

Major changes

Added Watch List feature to Watch Recordings listing programs most useful to watch in order to catch up on series and shows you have fallen behind in watching.

Added support for QAM recording using HDHomeRun device. Requires firmware 21-09-2006 or newer.

New official plugins:

MythMovies: provides show times and cinema listings based on Zip/Post code and a given radius.

MythZoneMinder: ZoneMinder is a system for monitoring cctv cameras. It uses a web interface which doesn't work very well on a MythTV only system so the plugin provides a remote friendly interface to some of the functions provided by ZM.

Added storage groups. This allows multiple recording directories, where each storage group is a list of directories.

Added new 'watched' flag for recordings which can be set manually or automatically and optionally increase auto expiration priority for watched shows. Includes a new 'watched' icon in the frontend and in MythWeb.

Improved Jump to Program feature while watching a recording. This action will now bring up the Watch Recordings screen for selection of the program.

Added Search Words->Stored Searches. This allows you to select a search stored from Custom Record with the convenience of a popup list and the view keys (Home and End) to cycle thru all stored searches.

Added support for New Zealand MHEG profile

Added EPG support for Premiere's Optionskanaele

Added an optional idle timer to LiveTV. If we haven't received any remote/keyboard input for X minutes then we show a dialogue asking if the user is still watching. After 45 seconds without any reponse, we exit LiveTV. If the user responds, then the timer is reset.

Attempt to re-record programs that are not recorded because of a channel change failure

Better caching of recording data on frontend for faster performance

Added short commands for telnet control of the frontend

Added option for non-default MySQL port configuration using the DBPort option in the mysql.txt

Use tv_find_grabbers to find XMLTV grabbers to use. Requires XMLTV version 0.5.43 or higher.

Updated --nosched command-line option to the backend to prevent only new recordings from firing off. It does not prevent the scheduler from running which allows for better debugging. Recordings not recorded during this time are marked as rsOffLine.

Added Last Recorded and Next Recording to Program Details screen

Pressing '7' on the Recording Priorities screen allows sorting by last_record field

Power on a firewire connected recorder if it is off when interacting with it

Add a CHANGEGROUPVIEW keybinding on the Watch Recordings screen to allow directly popping up the Group View changer

Add the ability to have a 'Preserved' flag icon on the Watch Recordings screen. No themes were modified to support this as it is up to theme designers to implement if desired due to the already large number of possible icon flags.

Allow turning off of UPnP support with --noupnp option on the backend.

Added a new setting under Setup -> TV Settings -> Playback to allow the user to force Myth to prefer to stream files from a remote backend

Added a setting to use the Watch List as the initial view on the Watch Recordings screen

Added ability to request a Preview Image of any size and time within the file using the XML method getPreviewImage

Added support for the xmltv --capabilities and --preferredmethod arguments to mythfilldatabase.

Various updates to ivtv recorder

Added randomization of the mythfilldatabase runtimes within the desired start/end run window

Added the ability to save a PNG file of the currently displayed video frame by using the SCREENSHOT keybinding or the "play save screenshot FILENAME WxH" command in the Network Control socket interface.

Expand "action on playback exit" option to include Live TV

Added a dupin option for "Record new episode first showings"

Added an option in Set Recording Priorities to avoid back to back recordings from different channels

Allowed the user to choose between displaying LiveTV programs as a group or individually by title when the LiveTVInAllPrograms setting is turned on

Added the DETAILS button on the Recording Priorities page to show program details.

Added Israeli CATV analog frequency table.

Added support for ASUSTeK MyCinema P7131 Hybrid card

Added an option to fine tune font sizes.

Added the ability to capture MPEG-2 video from the go7007 driver.

Added a way to defer auto-transcode jobs so that they can be automatically scheduled for days after the original recording completes rather than immediately after.

Allow the user to set a mythfilldatabase run period where the max hour is less than the min hour, for instance if they want the run period to be from 8PM till 4AM.

Provides show times and cinema listings based on Zip/Post code and a given radius. It uses external scripts to grab times and so can be used in any country so long as a script is written for a local data source. Ships with a grabber for the USA which uses the ignyte website.

New plugin: ZoneMinder is a system for monitoring cctv cameras. It uses a web interface which doesn't work very well on a MythTV only system so the plugin provides a remote friendly interface to some of the functions provided by ZM.

Add another check criteria that will force mythfilldatabase to download data for a particular day. If the number of channels with at least one program between 6pm and midnight is less than 90% of the count for the previous day, a data refresh will be initiated.

Parse more information from the xmltv data, including HDTV, subtitle and audio details

Fixed category_type for grabbers that use [Ff]ilm in the category field to indicate theatrical motion pictures.